2. This is the same man whose name was later changed to Paul and wrote over half the New Testament.

3. But before He met Christ, he was a totally different man and today we will look at the difference Christ made in his life.

4. The first thing we see about Saul is that…

I. Saul was moving against Christ.

Acts 9:1-2, Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

A. The text says that Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against followers of "the Way."

1. "The Way" refers to the Way of Jesus Christ.

2. "The Way" to heaven is through Jesus Christ.

3. He was "still" breathing out threats refers to other passages of Scriptures that we’ve already studied that tell of Saul’s persecution of believers.

4. Acts 7:58 tells us that when the religious people got upset with Stephen, they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

5. Then Acts 8:1-3, And Saul was there, giving approval to his death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

6. The rest of Acts 8 tells us some stories about Philip’s ministry in two different places during this scattering of the believers.

7. But then Acts 9:1, 2 reminds us that Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.